Our client is home to a new type of search that makes it easy to find
subjective information. Starting in early 2008 the company raised seed
financing from a number of premier angel investors and carefully grew a
high-caliber engineering team. Today, the company includes founders from
more than a half-dozen successful startups, four AI Ph.D.s, and engineers
from Silicon Valley's major technology companies.

Just came across this, thought it might be of use to practitioners
putting forward a UX agenda in their organisation. The target reader
appears to be non-practitioners, the language used is open and should
be generally comprehendible. That said, the breadth of practices &
methodologies covered is very wide. For those with a well established
team, I think this document may prove very useful as a reference for
backing up design decisions.

"Working through Screens is a reference for product teams creating new
or iteratively improved applications for thinking work.

I've been working on a redesign of the web-based user interface for a
personal health record platform, and I began to wonder -- do I need to
retain the one-line instruction that seems to be on the top of every major
data listing (medications, lab tests, immunizations, etc.):

"Click any item in the list to see more detail" (or something similar
to that effect)

The title of each list item is hyperlinked with underlined, blue text.

I guess the bigger questions are:

Do I assume my users' basic browsing abilities at my own peril?
Does even a basic task of web usage need to be fi

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